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f - fl^^s couictfg equal and exact justice to all volxl1ii no 4 salisbury x c thursday^pril 9 1896 established 1832 to find the colorec gentleman in the wood pile pingree a populist stands pat on every arti cle of our fajth repnbuca&s and ponulutg and freÂ«-bll .' ter democrat 71lv xamo him for goffrnor of mlohi5*a 3iay b heard i'rom jaly 23 iss mary b miller a student of the eng'ewood chicago high school haa nominated mayor pingrea of detrpit for preai.lont the nomination was made the other day at a meeting of the literary club ronn cted with the school her name was en the program for a spopch on mayor pingree anrl his re forms the bpeech will intprpkt rr jforrriera generally because mayor pin gree's views are given on tho three criai jncs;.ons of the day â€” finance transportation land here it ib men are best known by the ideas which they represent when we think cf washington we are reminded of fi e hero n var and in jj-a^o w o ' : no filtering in the darkest hours *.." lie republic end wh:i served his country for eight years with out money compensation when we think of jefferson we f'.ilnk of his memorable words that which will promote the interest of the individual ip the most permanent and beneficial form la the promotion of the general pro 1 increasing the opportun ities of mankind and enlarging the acopp of civil i7 i when we think of monroe we con found his name with that groat doctrino t)f international law now fully recog fclfcer throughout the world i when we think of jackson we are reminded of his brave resistance to the money power which sought to fasten upon thia country a duplicate of the bank of england when we think of lincoln we are re minded of his fidelity to tho cause of human rights as represented in tho abolition of flavery when we think of wendel phillips we see the flfrmro of an aristocrat stoop ing to embrace the cause of the enslave negro unawed by the scoff 3 anil jeers of plutocracy all those mÂ»n were made for the oc casion by the oppression of george iii washington was made in the at tempt to centralize the government jefferson from the oppression of the central and smith american republics monroe the attempt to renew the char ter of the t'nitpd states bank jackson and the cause of slavery made lincoln and phillips w . â€¢* in the latter we have a type living among us to-day made by the selfish greed of corporate wealth which seeks to turn all things to its own interests regardless of the suffrages of the people hazen c pir.gree is an abolitionist in another serce he believes 5i the abol ition of corporate wealth as presented in financial monopolies tiansportatloa monopolies and land monopolies let us exfi.tiine his position on these question for it s fitting that we the future heirs to thi3 republic and its in stitution should study out the science of government what p financial monopoly why does mayor pingree poek to abolish it is it best for tbe united states that these forms of monopoly be abolished we find financial monopoly repre sented in the national banking system of the country which delegates to a few persons almost the entire control of the finances with power to contract or expand the currency at will to cause panics create distrust strikes and bloodshed now mayor fingree be lieves that the right to issue money should be solely delegated to the peo ple through the treasury with a gov ernment banking system in which there would be no selfish interests for private gain with this idea worked ont it is quite plain that there would be no more pan ics for the people having confidence in j the government would not rush to the government banks to withdraw their money from circulation as was done in the panic of 1s93 this panic was brought about by the greed of the bank ers of wall street new york and the bankers of lombard street london who sought to break down the rising sentiment in favor of the remonetiza tion of silver which was unwittingly demonetized by act of congress in 1s73 let us look a little further into this panic of 93 the democratic party ha just been returned to power on what was popularly supposed to be a free sil ver platform by an overwhelming ma jority of both houses of congress this platform promised to remonetlze silver with free and unlimited coinage at tho ratio of 16 to 1 but there was an obsta cle in tho way the president saw fit j to put a different construction to the platform there was a prospect however that congress would pass a free coinage bill 9ver his veto to offset this it was de eded by the wall street bankers and 1 their friends in london to give a grea object lesson in the panic that fol lowed this was first noticed when banks began to call in tholr loans and lo retuse accommodations on the very best securities as answer for their offense against industry and commerce they gave out through their public press that the pnnic resulted from fear of the remone tljatlon of silver and that when there wag no farther danger of remonetiza tion prosperity would return a free ! coinage bill was not passed and what is ! mere the sherman act was repealed and ' prosperity is still far away but the crowning act and the one j showing the relation between the wall ! street bankers and their london part j ners was at once laid bare when eng j land arbitrarily closed the mints of j india to the free coinage of silver ! in consequence of this silver at once shrunk 20 cents on the dollar creating ! a breach in the intrinsic value of the iloilars as represented in gold and silver respectively now a large portion of the people of this country in 93 frightened into sub nrssion to the program of the banking monopolies began to clamor against any attempt at rernonrtizution and by urging their representatives in con preks not only succeeded in preventing remonetization but forced the repeal of all laws favorable to silver as a standard of value thus one-half the standard mon^y wa given a final blow nil of our silver money becoming mere ly token or like a paper currency re deemable in gold it is natural that when redemption money is reduced by one-half the half remaining will in crease in purchasing power prices at once began to fall it was soon found out that money would purchase nearly twice aa much product as before for instance wheat fell from 90 cents a bushel to 40 cents to the owners of money this meant prosperity to the owners of products and all those who have something to sell including their labor it simply meant ruin there were or there are somo rich men strong enough and patriotic pnoueh to resist this form of infamy even at the cost of their own fortunes chief among these is the subject of this address mayor pingree is a althy manufacturer ns well as mayor detroit on expresing his opinion immediately became the object of ridicule at the hands of a large por tion of the prominent newspapers of the country but ridicule is not argument facts can never be answered by abuse in this day the people seek the truth not abuse they behold in such men as mayor pingree a possible savior for he cause of humanity and of the re now let us look at mayor pisgree's views on trasportation monopolies lie believes in government state and mu nicipal ownership in all uasi public monopolies for instance if the gov cvrment runs he pes'ofiico department successfully why should it not ran the entire railroad system or telegraph system if municipalities rim the water system successfully why not ex tend our ownership to gas or btreet railways such a condition cf affairs would have two good results the aboli tion of vast private fortunes and in a more equitable distribution of wealth for instance instead of paying ex orbitant rates to private persons or corporations the people would be prac tically paying their own money into their own pockets as it were it is plain that government and municipal ownership of public monopolies would be a benefit to mankind the subject admits of very little if any adverse argument now let us look at mr pingree's views of land monopolies first we must find out what land monopoly is i will give a bimple illustration on the corner of garfleld and michigan boulevards there is a vacant lot valued at twenty thousand dollars its owner holds it at that price what gives the property that value improvements xo it stands to-day in the game con dition as in the infancy of chicago o when the indians roamed the plains of illinois it is plain that the improve ments made arouud it such as the two boulevards built at public expense and houses adjoining give it its value and this value will continue to increass indefinitely as a result of improvements made around it but not upon it the owner is what might be calied a dead head in commercial life that is he takes advantage of natural conditions and the industry of his neighbors such a rx*n is an enemy to society for with out producir-t anything useful he grows wealthy out of the industry of others wealth thus accumulated may be called legitimate by some but never theless it is not god gave the land to tne people to improve and to beau tify and not to hold in idleness to abolish land monopoly it would only be necessary to pass a law increas ing the taxes on vacant or idle prop erty taking it entirely off improved silver's battles the onslaught against sin gle standard continues an enlightened r*ress speaks out for the people'9 money secretary morton to farmers secretary morton has written t i the manufacturers record a description of biltmore george w vanderbilt's place in western north carolina naturally the secretary is enthus fistic in his admirutiou or this ruaguincnt estate aud he seems to look forward with pleasure to the day when every farmer in the country will own one just like it of course secretary morton draws a lesson from bdtmore in favor of th â€¢ gold standard if he had not intend ed to draw i-uch a lesson he would not have fooled with biltmore what tar heel cau fail to bow with shame before the following reproof : the m uiona of dollars which mr v?.r i th 1 has expended have esc'i and rv ry >â– â– -<; ol them been up to theg id standard iu purchas ing power " â€¢ â€¢ north carolina,however altli u_;h the old st a 1-prodncing t<-c : n of the united s:ats au 1 notwith fact that ir â– inveatm nta f r r -â€¢ â€¢ y ; z â– : the gold product of the commonweimi being maile and notwithstanding the furihe fact that north carol na i not u * v i in rtate contains a population very thorough ly saturated wi h the fulia y o the free coinage of sivor at 16 to 1 it is claimed by some that secretary morton has not enough brains to jus tify his admission to a lunatic asylum it is a vile slander he has a:.d we do not believe that they are sii c sre who claim th:it he has not secretary morton has as solid a head as was ever eet-u on the shoulders of anything but a statue fla tinaes-unioij *** missouri is lor i't-^e coinage colonel joe rickley of st louis a prominent democratic leader of mis souri says that his state is for free coinage and will bend a eolid white metal delegation to the chicago con vention the democratic party said he couldn't lose n xt nov mb - if it asserted its independence of t/io goldbags aud came cut aa it should for the free coinage of both ie:a!s independent of the action of other na tions there arc s nit gold men i:i missouri but thpy wou'l b heard of in the national convention b cau^e the piiik of allowing rejiresentation by congre.-sii-nul districts will not be allowed the state convention will attend to tbat and only friends of sil ver will be chosen to go to chicago this is in arrord with the action of gold states lika pennsylvania which will nut allow the filv^r minority any representation in the delegations missouri ha moreover the ik st man in the united states to lÂ«ad the party in the person o 1 richard p blind if bland is nominated ho will get the votes not only of his own j arty but of the pi:j>ulist and siiv r in v h is the natural and logical candidate his record is without a fla '. no mat ter if the eastern and middle f-t.-it s go against him there are enough i !< ctoral votes in the south and west to put him in the white house i>nt what if the eastern democrats object to his nomination colonel let em bolt nnd be â€” . even if under bland's leadership the party failed to win it would preserve its ur givtiiziition and be in good fighting trim for 1900 iu the other case it will perish from the earth let the gold bugs prevail at chicago and all thsit will bo left of the grand old party of jefferson and jackson will be a memo ry in the pending contest i'r would be a poor third in the rncp and after november there would be few eft hu would acknowledge they had ever be longed to the party *** views cf financiers from atlanta cons'itntii n interest in bimetallism â€” genuine bi metallism â€” is not confined to the south and west but [â– â€¢â– renched new york city the m tropolitan pre-a is almo-t entirely devoted to the fcchemes of the money power iuf occasional we find h newspaper there willing to print and cizculate the tiuth recent iy there have been unmistakable man ifestations that the readers of some ot these newspapers re d'^iauding fair pl'iy and honest di u bo iar ah the money question is concerned the financial ncwr a daily paper devoted to finance nn<1 tv market , reproduced from the cievelaud 0 plain dealer the report of an inter view which a business man of cleve land hud with the right u:n william lidderd â– .!:â– , ex-governor of the bank of england on th â– q :â€¢ â– ion tÂ»f re <-, en ing the mints to silver along with the report of the interview is printed the text of some remarks made at the mansion house by mr evelyn hub bard au associate dim for of the bank of england wh from being a pro nounced advocate of g 1 1 monomet allisin has recently become an ar â€¢ ri t bupporter of the cause of bimeta moreover the new york commer cial advertiser a leading advue te of the gold standard printed a ttr from george alfred towlsend pivii g the at tails of an interview with jay cooke the veteran philadelphia banker one oi the most distinguished financiers of this country these things show that the question of re fctoring s lver is pressing to the front even in new york the stronghold of the money power â€¢ neither mr lidderdale nor mr hub bard take any stock in the argument of the gold contractionists that legis lation will not affect the ratio between the metals what is lost by legisla tion says the former can be re i ! 6tored by legislation mr hubbard â– used to believe that even w-re a ratio fixed by law between silver : the marker price must inevitably vary from the legal ratio in accordance vita 1 the increase orthe decrease n tl pro duction oi either metal 1 discover ed he says that ti ia lot a mat ter of argument i ut of hist ry ; thit th 3 r t cord of the years 1849 52 has u hed tha most conclusive d stratioaof the power of the r ketp the price etea ly even in th of the most violent fluctuation i:i sup ply mr lidderdale say that if tl pie of the united states saw fit and had the courage of their convictions they c uld by oj â€¢ ning their * th-j white m tal fore the restoi of silver in europe which would be the only method by which europe could keen the trade of india china i japan mexico and south america â€¢ * the shadow of the cold standard the reports of the commercial ' agencies do not show a very i condition of affairs in the united states under the single gold standard ; they show indeed that a 1 ! lines of 1 business are pnqvriiig from th c n 6tantly increasing v-i!ue of money or what is the fame thing the constant i decline in prices oi.iy a few days ago we called the ; attenti<;nof thecucko i and gold btand 1 ard organs in thia section to the fact that i the depression in trade ana business i instead of showing signs of disappear ing was in reality growing deeper ' ; and darker all the while and low [ comes the commercial ag,enci - more j â€¢ than verifying the fctattmtnt made in i the3e colun.n3 we are under the shadow of the â– single gold standard and neit er busi ness and trade nor the indnstrial ditions can grow any brighter or betu r eo long as the contraction of the r'.ir rency is going on â€” so long us ih - . gle gold standard contii u nre the products of labor then cau be no substantial improtemenl in line so long as pricea continu â– t â– fall â€” and this fall must contiuu â– until prices reach the 1 w enrop a . l vel if wo are to link our monetary system with the system prevailing in the shy lock-ridden countrit b of the old woj id i consequently our business mou and j the mercantile community generally j must not be surprised so turd the re j ports of the commercial agencies grow j ing gloomier and gloomier week by week against the depressing influ enoe of the tingle gold standard neither j municipal nor individual enterprise : can prevail the cause that paralyzes ; industry is bound tu paralyze bus there is no help for it and no relis f to be found except by returning to the monetary system that provided a bi metallic currency for the people tho reports of the commercial agen | cies show some very bad features of j the situation mills are closing down j for lack of orders other industries are running half time cotton manufac turers are seeking loans to enable them to carry their accumulated stock the failures last week were large r and more important than they were the same week a year ago and the aggregate of i defaulted liabilities is more than 1 i 000,000 greater for three weeks in march than they were for the bame period last year with this conns news of the reduction of wages in one of the oldest end most conservatively managed mills in the south the eagle and phenix of columbus together with hints of a strike the operatives know they are about to be hurt and they imagine it is the mill mana â€¢ r who arc doing the hnriing wo should say they were short j sighted if it were not true that thons â– f men who ought to know bi t ' tcr are proving every day that they . are just as bhort-sighted in their way as i lie mill operatives in theirs for i stiii we see manufacturers bo j men and merchants lending ] <â– ears to the cry of sound mom v for getting that in finauce us well .-.-. in , i sin pie arithmetic 2 from 4 have only [ 2 how can there be si demand : t goods when the people have no money i to buy and how can the people who are compelled to buy money with the ' products of their labor have money to j fx'-liange for their goods when they i can get only half ns much for the com j modities they sell j the operations of the single gold standard will b thoroughly under stood by everybody before th un trv is rid of it atlanta constitution pension rulings policy of the interior department laid down by assistant sec retary krynolds the policy of tho interior department in eases invoh ins rei ' ' - brnmeiit for fraud r mistak i ] eneion claimants is i lid d â– â– â– i i - vernl rulings of the a â– tar tl nterierrey â– . - . . ; â€¢ .â– -â€¢ it is he 1 : thai th â€¢ govi rni nt eann it â€¢> pension granted in lei i 1890 to reii fur . oi sh paid as pi nst n ;.â€¢â– >' und r tha general law wb a â€¢ pension wag not procured thr ugh fraud or mis take bui was â€¢ - t^l of an errone ma jii lgmt-nt on ih , i evidence the decision n verses the n nt 1 action i ' â– "â– "'~ l " tn " case of i hristian ttavs in ohio volunteer 'â– fntl ,- of jam s a ti sen 1 ' in thu twenty-fourth kentu ky infantry the ! followii g nifinria made !:. a pension claim ' â€ž, ,|.. r th qi ral law for th â€¢ disease of th ,.... , . .. . ealmei t by th claimant oi the : fact thai hehad been shot 1 r.riorto 1 â– â– 'â– 'â€¢ which woun i - i the lung disease amounl t ; art it therefore trra e . -â€¢ me 27 act in order : i re i m lj . r - â– the provernmÂ«nt or moneys ; u i him as pe sion under the gen ral law on a â€¢ int oi the lui -â€¢ w â– â– <-'â– â– w the love ol money is ii root of all evil quoted mrs lamb no re plied mr lamb who had been shorn lately wall streel is the route of all evil pittsburjj i inronicle-telegraph i ' tar heel mes the bir fisheries mt j-m*ntun the :' tha s-r-vu part oi : ati n t â€¢ os who live i team seins are hugi . u h:a ri.-hory 1 e:u three mi â€¢ rope included t e v,it into t . the shore y two si i . in m::ilf r - r ring â€¢ 5 . al.l ht-r cat h mr h i w aery md a â– â– Â»â€¢ men are employed in t â– 3the people who live have ao idea of the in.u : - ing interesta oi th s:Â«t . â€¢â€” a kailroad decision in th bqii â€¢ th cape fear ui ( ym ikii ue in ti i â€¢ 5 tea court decides that u preserved h an entirt ty oli as euch unless it â– practicable to mak certain preliminary . â– - . . ridered nd pas the muin <\- esi - of the divisions aa-i branch a an '. i triiuition of the proceeds of salt the respective holders of the d elassea of bonds the 'â€¢ ouri - fore orders a referent i to s blaster k s marti toi a to the values of the different livis ion and branches aud certain other 6tati*ti?s and to report the facts to the court for it conclusions ther the mills to the cotton fields north carolina built more c mills last yettr than were built in new england milleare shut iii new england because it is nut pro fitable to run them while they are running on full time in all tho soul ern states this is as it bhoul the movement of the mills to the cotton fields which began in earn le than twenty years ago should -â€¢ â– its natural conclusion in lebs than twenty years niore.when it is pi that the whole cotton crop of the south will be manufactured in th south +â€¢*â– presbyterians can't agree concord presbytery is much dissat isfied with trie decision of the meck lenburg and concord presbyteries in giving charlotte the pr college so maoh bo that it has fused to ratify the decision a movement i6 now on foot new to es tablish the college any way by a joint stock company if char h ler takes to enforce the above ol the preabytenea it disnipl . r union so strong ifl the feeling in i matter morton will get souk delegates thomiih b keogh who i a tour of north carolina in the inter est of morton's candidacy for the | i idency bays that morton fa â– - con i able strength in the state and will g â€¢ some delegates t the convention it is stated by borne lending republicans that it is now the field against mck ley in north carolina and that mcb ]. v can oarry only two districts me kinley men insist that they have six teen votes -Â«â€¢â–º- vance monnmeni fund mr polk miller has ended bia i â€¢ ture tour and it has monument pond ato it 1 makes the fund on bund it is said that at lea?1 - if ii biography oi / noi be written in thia general of soitb carolina some â– â€¢ â– : â€¢ blame and we will noi b tf judge george brown and i mr sylvester brown of wash n ('.', won 1 'â™¦ would bu well dune tt y are i men of literary taste and eujture i th knew vance personally th bkilled c tnsoientious p ti i i ainstaking writers if prop rly can vabsed the hale of the ild build the monument elizabeth city economist â– Â«â€¢Â» governor carr hah pa 1 fifty [ reward to â€¢>. a bishop . tnrj of nathan jones wanted in i son county for assault with ' kill bishop certaii y earn i ward he followed jonea down int :-,,,- th carolina then back into ti state and at last caught him in p eonnty jones has been placed in the >!<â– :. lerson county jail *â€¢> the strike of the carpenters at th asheville wood-working c vanderbilft ahopfl ha by h sympathetic btrike on the part of the carpenters on the vanderbilt a tate some of the utrikers on the es tate reported for work but mr mc namee declined to allow them to re turn to work in mitchell oounty two menu buried alive in a mica njine i y a quantity of earth and stone caving in on them when their bodies were re covered they were cold and stiff in death - â€” â€” â– *â€¢Â» â€” the greenville town council has de cided to put in water-works the indian school i - â€¢â– - i â– â€¢â€¢ â– â– on appropriations aas ;â– â– i udian appropriation bill i ' â– ' i lian school appropriation ! u :.-â€¢â€¢ went on the theory that there . i be do appropriation for sectarian school and yet appropriated 33.0tk for !. i nnd 820,000 for th - i hampton vi both ol which it was rlaimed a re sectarian bothofthes ippro yriationa the be i ttee has struck mt tho general appropriation for the lu ll a schools nfÂ»ts**tariar,haa been lner by upwards subscribe for this paper turn the cathode ray3 on it from cleveland press exponent of an enlightened citizenship says that to-day millions are kept in enforced idleness they can get no work they strive for this work as if it were bread itself happily econom ics is obtaining a hearing it is on the lips of many it is a hopeful sign re life must come victor hugo has apt ly said the labor question is the ques tion of mankind a crucial change is impending good men are baying again prepare ye the way abraham lincoln placed man before the dollar but industrial conditions j have reversed the enumeration and i man's social standing is now weighed out to him just as ai'y other purchas able commodity referring to the moiel town of pull â– men 111 as a conu^fi'sation of indus trial infamy mr debs told again some harsh-sounding truths with a surplus of 525,000,000 this company charged ! rentals and per force collected them ranging from 25 to 50 per cent above the rate paid by others than pullman i slaves in the immediate vicinity the ] ex-notions wrung from this unwilling | tenantry were fully exposed on every i stop from the cradle to the funeral casket pullman levied toll bitter was the arraignment of the manngpr's association so-called which precipitated the strike that has been . f-nerally charged up to the american : railway union twenty-six lines of i railway allied thernselvc3 to wreck this j trade union and blacklist its members i tills damnable blacklist is enforced to ; day so far as it is possible to do so courts are used by one side only | and injunctions are for the rich alone j during the pullman strike up to july _, no trouble had occurred but troubla was necessary so 4,200 thieves were sworn in aa deputy marshals in chi cago and trouble began that day ! property was destroyed chief of po lice brennan has testified that the deputy united states marshals were the real thieves i sought the advice of tbo best legal advisers of the country with regard to the injunction served upon rne 1 followed the advice and served eix months for doing bo judge jenkins and his malodorous injunction were not spared a railroad is wrecked then a receiver is ap pointed the receiver an officer of the court orders a 10 per cent reduction in j wages the judge issues an injunction against a etrike a committee of con gress investigates but just as the cor ruption is tapped the appropriation sud denly gives out and so does the bot tom of the investigation when i was in jail â€” " but mr debs was not permitte :' to fin ish this sentence without the interrup tion of the heartiest of laughter there was something about the manner of saying it which was irresistible yet tbi3 preliminary introduced a pathetic story concerning a cell mate who for the theft of an old cloak valued at 2 was sentenced in three minutes the speaker referred feelingly to his experience at woodstock prison as put ting him in touch with the unfortu nate suffering seems necessary to fully appreciate the unhappiness which j attends the unemployed competition is a curse unspeakable competition is cannibalism co-operation can save the workers it deserves faithful trial think even though you think by proxy think upward you must think books will win for you read after your work read to wife and child there is no excuse for ignorance shakespeare says there is no slavery but ignorance total ignorance is total helplessness have a library if it con sists of but one book associated effort only can bring emancipation selfishness commlt suicide always labor must be united r;nd jrist and above the low motives so often marring it labor's parasites must be lopped off away with lead ers debs is no leader he does not wish to be no one must follow think for yourself the republicans gave us john sher man and the democrats gave us grcver cleveland two brinks of the 8am 9 color property that is reversing the condi iions under which we now live by an error which we inherit from monarchia england we tax people for improving their property instead of taxing then for not doing so for instance i have a lot worth five hundred dollars and my tax i3 two dollars a year i put up a house for eight thousand dollars the tax gatherer immediately assesses me for my enterprise tho next year in stead of paying two dollars taxe8 i pay ficm fifty to seventy dollars that is what i get for making improvements put all the tax on the vacant prop erty and very soon you will see no more vacant expanses of prairie in the center of chicago or held for ille gitimate speculative purposes 0wner3 of such property would be anxious to sell bo as to get rid of the taxes and the property would be so cheap as to be within the reach of all the people all of us could then have homes in detroit mayor plngree as tho chief executive of the city took oc ; cation to advocate tax reform in this j direction and to accomplish his purpose ! he has found tfrat it will be necessary to change the constitution of the state i of michigan and it is not improbable i i hat a legislature favorable to his views i will be elected in november next id the meantime all tho vacant ; property of detroit is being made use 1 of by the poor for the purpose of rais : ing vegetables hence we have the i vulgar newspaper appellation potato ! pingree the experiment has proved i so entirely successful that it has been j taken up in other cities throughout the i country but the people should not lose bight : of the fact that the abolition of land j monopoly is one of three great prob i lems to be solved by the will of the j american people at the ballot-box as an indication of the fact that i mayor pingree'a views are popular with i the common people we need only look j at his several indorsements at the polls j in 18s9 he was chosen mayor by a raa ; jority of over two thousand in 1891 by i a majority of five thousand in xs93 by 'â– a majority of eight thousand and in ; 1895 by a majority of ten thousand at a convention soon to be held in i michigan he will be nominated for ; governor of that state it may happen ; however that he will not remain a i candidate for that office for even now we hear the voice of the people of this j nation calling him to a higher destiny | nnd i for one would nominate for presi i dent of the united states hazen s ! pingree the abolitionist of 1896 debs at st louis largest hall id the city packed to overflowing evening journal take heart said mr debs the | midnight watch is over defy public opinion and take your i stand with men like jackson th | world as yet is neither just nor gen i erous still there is room for hope in j this line free government can dem onstrate itself the forebodings and j advance objections of macaulay count | for nothing as against honest attempts to establish justice among men organized labor is not understood it is not the produce of a clirne or sea son but is born of oppression while j of course there are honest and even i generous employers they ever find themselves short of a quorum they stand simply as honorable exceptions to an otherwise monotonous array of forces adverse to the welfare of the j wage worker the ever-widening j range of machinery is constantly ren i tk-rlng more difficult the application of arbitration in the settlement of disputes arising from its use machinery is everywhere and is i everything man has become a mere attachment for instance men in kal amazoo mich operate machinery for five cents an hour this service brings a reward of fifty cents a day 3 a week such pay for intelligent effort i is so palpably inadequate that strikes follow sofcner or later they do not come by chance or by choice frances e willard that sterling : oc^pt

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f - fl^^s couictfg equal and exact justice to all volxl1ii no 4 salisbury x c thursday^pril 9 1896 established 1832 to find the colorec gentleman in the wood pile pingree a populist stands pat on every arti cle of our fajth repnbuca&s and ponulutg and freÂ«-bll .' ter democrat 71lv xamo him for goffrnor of mlohi5*a 3iay b heard i'rom jaly 23 iss mary b miller a student of the eng'ewood chicago high school haa nominated mayor pingrea of detrpit for preai.lont the nomination was made the other day at a meeting of the literary club ronn cted with the school her name was en the program for a spopch on mayor pingree anrl his re forms the bpeech will intprpkt rr jforrriera generally because mayor pin gree's views are given on tho three criai jncs;.ons of the day â€” finance transportation land here it ib men are best known by the ideas which they represent when we think cf washington we are reminded of fi e hero n var and in jj-a^o w o ' : no filtering in the darkest hours *.." lie republic end wh:i served his country for eight years with out money compensation when we think of jefferson we f'.ilnk of his memorable words that which will promote the interest of the individual ip the most permanent and beneficial form la the promotion of the general pro 1 increasing the opportun ities of mankind and enlarging the acopp of civil i7 i when we think of monroe we con found his name with that groat doctrino t)f international law now fully recog fclfcer throughout the world i when we think of jackson we are reminded of his brave resistance to the money power which sought to fasten upon thia country a duplicate of the bank of england when we think of lincoln we are re minded of his fidelity to tho cause of human rights as represented in tho abolition of flavery when we think of wendel phillips we see the flfrmro of an aristocrat stoop ing to embrace the cause of the enslave negro unawed by the scoff 3 anil jeers of plutocracy all those mÂ»n were made for the oc casion by the oppression of george iii washington was made in the at tempt to centralize the government jefferson from the oppression of the central and smith american republics monroe the attempt to renew the char ter of the t'nitpd states bank jackson and the cause of slavery made lincoln and phillips w . â€¢* in the latter we have a type living among us to-day made by the selfish greed of corporate wealth which seeks to turn all things to its own interests regardless of the suffrages of the people hazen c pir.gree is an abolitionist in another serce he believes 5i the abol ition of corporate wealth as presented in financial monopolies tiansportatloa monopolies and land monopolies let us exfi.tiine his position on these question for it s fitting that we the future heirs to thi3 republic and its in stitution should study out the science of government what p financial monopoly why does mayor pingree poek to abolish it is it best for tbe united states that these forms of monopoly be abolished we find financial monopoly repre sented in the national banking system of the country which delegates to a few persons almost the entire control of the finances with power to contract or expand the currency at will to cause panics create distrust strikes and bloodshed now mayor fingree be lieves that the right to issue money should be solely delegated to the peo ple through the treasury with a gov ernment banking system in which there would be no selfish interests for private gain with this idea worked ont it is quite plain that there would be no more pan ics for the people having confidence in j the government would not rush to the government banks to withdraw their money from circulation as was done in the panic of 1s93 this panic was brought about by the greed of the bank ers of wall street new york and the bankers of lombard street london who sought to break down the rising sentiment in favor of the remonetiza tion of silver which was unwittingly demonetized by act of congress in 1s73 let us look a little further into this panic of 93 the democratic party ha just been returned to power on what was popularly supposed to be a free sil ver platform by an overwhelming ma jority of both houses of congress this platform promised to remonetlze silver with free and unlimited coinage at tho ratio of 16 to 1 but there was an obsta cle in tho way the president saw fit j to put a different construction to the platform there was a prospect however that congress would pass a free coinage bill 9ver his veto to offset this it was de eded by the wall street bankers and 1 their friends in london to give a grea object lesson in the panic that fol lowed this was first noticed when banks began to call in tholr loans and lo retuse accommodations on the very best securities as answer for their offense against industry and commerce they gave out through their public press that the pnnic resulted from fear of the remone tljatlon of silver and that when there wag no farther danger of remonetiza tion prosperity would return a free ! coinage bill was not passed and what is ! mere the sherman act was repealed and ' prosperity is still far away but the crowning act and the one j showing the relation between the wall ! street bankers and their london part j ners was at once laid bare when eng j land arbitrarily closed the mints of j india to the free coinage of silver ! in consequence of this silver at once shrunk 20 cents on the dollar creating ! a breach in the intrinsic value of the iloilars as represented in gold and silver respectively now a large portion of the people of this country in 93 frightened into sub nrssion to the program of the banking monopolies began to clamor against any attempt at rernonrtizution and by urging their representatives in con preks not only succeeded in preventing remonetization but forced the repeal of all laws favorable to silver as a standard of value thus one-half the standard mon^y wa given a final blow nil of our silver money becoming mere ly token or like a paper currency re deemable in gold it is natural that when redemption money is reduced by one-half the half remaining will in crease in purchasing power prices at once began to fall it was soon found out that money would purchase nearly twice aa much product as before for instance wheat fell from 90 cents a bushel to 40 cents to the owners of money this meant prosperity to the owners of products and all those who have something to sell including their labor it simply meant ruin there were or there are somo rich men strong enough and patriotic pnoueh to resist this form of infamy even at the cost of their own fortunes chief among these is the subject of this address mayor pingree is a althy manufacturer ns well as mayor detroit on expresing his opinion immediately became the object of ridicule at the hands of a large por tion of the prominent newspapers of the country but ridicule is not argument facts can never be answered by abuse in this day the people seek the truth not abuse they behold in such men as mayor pingree a possible savior for he cause of humanity and of the re now let us look at mayor pisgree's views on trasportation monopolies lie believes in government state and mu nicipal ownership in all uasi public monopolies for instance if the gov cvrment runs he pes'ofiico department successfully why should it not ran the entire railroad system or telegraph system if municipalities rim the water system successfully why not ex tend our ownership to gas or btreet railways such a condition cf affairs would have two good results the aboli tion of vast private fortunes and in a more equitable distribution of wealth for instance instead of paying ex orbitant rates to private persons or corporations the people would be prac tically paying their own money into their own pockets as it were it is plain that government and municipal ownership of public monopolies would be a benefit to mankind the subject admits of very little if any adverse argument now let us look at mr pingree's views of land monopolies first we must find out what land monopoly is i will give a bimple illustration on the corner of garfleld and michigan boulevards there is a vacant lot valued at twenty thousand dollars its owner holds it at that price what gives the property that value improvements xo it stands to-day in the game con dition as in the infancy of chicago o when the indians roamed the plains of illinois it is plain that the improve ments made arouud it such as the two boulevards built at public expense and houses adjoining give it its value and this value will continue to increass indefinitely as a result of improvements made around it but not upon it the owner is what might be calied a dead head in commercial life that is he takes advantage of natural conditions and the industry of his neighbors such a rx*n is an enemy to society for with out producir-t anything useful he grows wealthy out of the industry of others wealth thus accumulated may be called legitimate by some but never theless it is not god gave the land to tne people to improve and to beau tify and not to hold in idleness to abolish land monopoly it would only be necessary to pass a law increas ing the taxes on vacant or idle prop erty taking it entirely off improved silver's battles the onslaught against sin gle standard continues an enlightened r*ress speaks out for the people'9 money secretary morton to farmers secretary morton has written t i the manufacturers record a description of biltmore george w vanderbilt's place in western north carolina naturally the secretary is enthus fistic in his admirutiou or this ruaguincnt estate aud he seems to look forward with pleasure to the day when every farmer in the country will own one just like it of course secretary morton draws a lesson from bdtmore in favor of th â€¢ gold standard if he had not intend ed to draw i-uch a lesson he would not have fooled with biltmore what tar heel cau fail to bow with shame before the following reproof : the m uiona of dollars which mr v?.r i th 1 has expended have esc'i and rv ry >â– â– -ulist and siiv r in v h is the natural and logical candidate his record is without a fla '. no mat ter if the eastern and middle f-t.-it s go against him there are enough i !< ctoral votes in the south and west to put him in the white house i>nt what if the eastern democrats object to his nomination colonel let em bolt nnd be â€” . even if under bland's leadership the party failed to win it would preserve its ur givtiiziition and be in good fighting trim for 1900 iu the other case it will perish from the earth let the gold bugs prevail at chicago and all thsit will bo left of the grand old party of jefferson and jackson will be a memo ry in the pending contest i'r would be a poor third in the rncp and after november there would be few eft hu would acknowledge they had ever be longed to the party *** views cf financiers from atlanta cons'itntii n interest in bimetallism â€” genuine bi metallism â€” is not confined to the south and west but [â– â€¢â– renched new york city the m tropolitan pre-a is almo-t entirely devoted to the fcchemes of the money power iuf occasional we find h newspaper there willing to print and cizculate the tiuth recent iy there have been unmistakable man ifestations that the readers of some ot these newspapers re d'^iauding fair pl'iy and honest di u bo iar ah the money question is concerned the financial ncwr a daily paper devoted to finance nn<1 tv market , reproduced from the cievelaud 0 plain dealer the report of an inter view which a business man of cleve land hud with the right u:n william lidderd â– .!:â– , ex-governor of the bank of england on th â– q :â€¢ â– ion tÂ»f re pension granted in lei i 1890 to reii fur . oi sh paid as pi nst n ;.â€¢â– >' und r tha general law wb a â€¢ pension wag not procured thr ugh fraud or mis take bui was â€¢ - t^l of an errone ma jii lgmt-nt on ih , i evidence the decision n verses the n nt 1 action i ' â– "â– "'~ l " tn " case of i hristian ttavs in ohio volunteer 'â– fntl ,- of jam s a ti sen 1 ' in thu twenty-fourth kentu ky infantry the ! followii g nifinria made !:. a pension claim ' â€ž, ,|.. r th qi ral law for th â€¢ disease of th ,.... , . .. . ealmei t by th claimant oi the : fact thai hehad been shot 1 r.riorto 1 â– â– 'â– 'â€¢ which woun i - i the lung disease amounl t ; art it therefore trra e . -â€¢ me 27 act in order : i re i m lj . r - â– the provernmÂ«nt or moneys ; u i him as pe sion under the gen ral law on a â€¢ int oi the lui -â€¢ w â– â– . a bishop . tnrj of nathan jones wanted in i son county for assault with ' kill bishop certaii y earn i ward he followed jonea down int :-,,,- th carolina then back into ti state and at last caught him in p eonnty jones has been placed in the >! the strike of the carpenters at th asheville wood-working c vanderbilft ahopfl ha by h sympathetic btrike on the part of the carpenters on the vanderbilt a tate some of the utrikers on the es tate reported for work but mr mc namee declined to allow them to re turn to work in mitchell oounty two menu buried alive in a mica njine i y a quantity of earth and stone caving in on them when their bodies were re covered they were cold and stiff in death - â€” â€” â– *â€¢Â» â€” the greenville town council has de cided to put in water-works the indian school i - â€¢â– - i â– â€¢â€¢ â– â– on appropriations aas ;â– â– i udian appropriation bill i ' â– ' i lian school appropriation ! u :.-â€¢â€¢ went on the theory that there . i be do appropriation for sectarian school and yet appropriated 33.0tk for !. i nnd 820,000 for th - i hampton vi both ol which it was rlaimed a re sectarian bothofthes ippro yriationa the be i ttee has struck mt tho general appropriation for the lu ll a schools nfÂ»ts**tariar,haa been lner by upwards subscribe for this paper turn the cathode ray3 on it from cleveland press exponent of an enlightened citizenship says that to-day millions are kept in enforced idleness they can get no work they strive for this work as if it were bread itself happily econom ics is obtaining a hearing it is on the lips of many it is a hopeful sign re life must come victor hugo has apt ly said the labor question is the ques tion of mankind a crucial change is impending good men are baying again prepare ye the way abraham lincoln placed man before the dollar but industrial conditions j have reversed the enumeration and i man's social standing is now weighed out to him just as ai'y other purchas able commodity referring to the moiel town of pull â– men 111 as a conu^fi'sation of indus trial infamy mr debs told again some harsh-sounding truths with a surplus of 525,000,000 this company charged ! rentals and per force collected them ranging from 25 to 50 per cent above the rate paid by others than pullman i slaves in the immediate vicinity the ] ex-notions wrung from this unwilling | tenantry were fully exposed on every i stop from the cradle to the funeral casket pullman levied toll bitter was the arraignment of the manngpr's association so-called which precipitated the strike that has been . f-nerally charged up to the american : railway union twenty-six lines of i railway allied thernselvc3 to wreck this j trade union and blacklist its members i tills damnable blacklist is enforced to ; day so far as it is possible to do so courts are used by one side only | and injunctions are for the rich alone j during the pullman strike up to july _, no trouble had occurred but troubla was necessary so 4,200 thieves were sworn in aa deputy marshals in chi cago and trouble began that day ! property was destroyed chief of po lice brennan has testified that the deputy united states marshals were the real thieves i sought the advice of tbo best legal advisers of the country with regard to the injunction served upon rne 1 followed the advice and served eix months for doing bo judge jenkins and his malodorous injunction were not spared a railroad is wrecked then a receiver is ap pointed the receiver an officer of the court orders a 10 per cent reduction in j wages the judge issues an injunction against a etrike a committee of con gress investigates but just as the cor ruption is tapped the appropriation sud denly gives out and so does the bot tom of the investigation when i was in jail â€” " but mr debs was not permitte :' to fin ish this sentence without the interrup tion of the heartiest of laughter there was something about the manner of saying it which was irresistible yet tbi3 preliminary introduced a pathetic story concerning a cell mate who for the theft of an old cloak valued at 2 was sentenced in three minutes the speaker referred feelingly to his experience at woodstock prison as put ting him in touch with the unfortu nate suffering seems necessary to fully appreciate the unhappiness which j attends the unemployed competition is a curse unspeakable competition is cannibalism co-operation can save the workers it deserves faithful trial think even though you think by proxy think upward you must think books will win for you read after your work read to wife and child there is no excuse for ignorance shakespeare says there is no slavery but ignorance total ignorance is total helplessness have a library if it con sists of but one book associated effort only can bring emancipation selfishness commlt suicide always labor must be united r;nd jrist and above the low motives so often marring it labor's parasites must be lopped off away with lead ers debs is no leader he does not wish to be no one must follow think for yourself the republicans gave us john sher man and the democrats gave us grcver cleveland two brinks of the 8am 9 color property that is reversing the condi iions under which we now live by an error which we inherit from monarchia england we tax people for improving their property instead of taxing then for not doing so for instance i have a lot worth five hundred dollars and my tax i3 two dollars a year i put up a house for eight thousand dollars the tax gatherer immediately assesses me for my enterprise tho next year in stead of paying two dollars taxe8 i pay ficm fifty to seventy dollars that is what i get for making improvements put all the tax on the vacant prop erty and very soon you will see no more vacant expanses of prairie in the center of chicago or held for ille gitimate speculative purposes 0wner3 of such property would be anxious to sell bo as to get rid of the taxes and the property would be so cheap as to be within the reach of all the people all of us could then have homes in detroit mayor plngree as tho chief executive of the city took oc ; cation to advocate tax reform in this j direction and to accomplish his purpose ! he has found tfrat it will be necessary to change the constitution of the state i of michigan and it is not improbable i i hat a legislature favorable to his views i will be elected in november next id the meantime all tho vacant ; property of detroit is being made use 1 of by the poor for the purpose of rais : ing vegetables hence we have the i vulgar newspaper appellation potato ! pingree the experiment has proved i so entirely successful that it has been j taken up in other cities throughout the i country but the people should not lose bight : of the fact that the abolition of land j monopoly is one of three great prob i lems to be solved by the will of the j american people at the ballot-box as an indication of the fact that i mayor pingree'a views are popular with i the common people we need only look j at his several indorsements at the polls j in 18s9 he was chosen mayor by a raa ; jority of over two thousand in 1891 by i a majority of five thousand in xs93 by 'â– a majority of eight thousand and in ; 1895 by a majority of ten thousand at a convention soon to be held in i michigan he will be nominated for ; governor of that state it may happen ; however that he will not remain a i candidate for that office for even now we hear the voice of the people of this j nation calling him to a higher destiny | nnd i for one would nominate for presi i dent of the united states hazen s ! pingree the abolitionist of 1896 debs at st louis largest hall id the city packed to overflowing evening journal take heart said mr debs the | midnight watch is over defy public opinion and take your i stand with men like jackson th | world as yet is neither just nor gen i erous still there is room for hope in j this line free government can dem onstrate itself the forebodings and j advance objections of macaulay count | for nothing as against honest attempts to establish justice among men organized labor is not understood it is not the produce of a clirne or sea son but is born of oppression while j of course there are honest and even i generous employers they ever find themselves short of a quorum they stand simply as honorable exceptions to an otherwise monotonous array of forces adverse to the welfare of the j wage worker the ever-widening j range of machinery is constantly ren i tk-rlng more difficult the application of arbitration in the settlement of disputes arising from its use machinery is everywhere and is i everything man has become a mere attachment for instance men in kal amazoo mich operate machinery for five cents an hour this service brings a reward of fifty cents a day 3 a week such pay for intelligent effort i is so palpably inadequate that strikes follow sofcner or later they do not come by chance or by choice frances e willard that sterling : oc^pt